James Hamblin M.D. is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He hosts the online video show If Our Bodies Could Talk, and is the author of If Our Bodies Could Talk, a nonfiction book about human health published by Doubleday. He is a lecturer in public health at Yale University.

In 2012, Hamblin chose to pursue a career in media and joined The Atlantic and became the editor for its health channel, which had been launched in 2011.[2][1] In 2013, he created an online comedy video show about health and lifestyle topics on The Atlantic website called If Our Bodies Could Talk,[5] for which he was a finalist for a Webby award for Best Web Personality/Host.[2][6] He has been named among the 140 people to follow on Twitter by Time, and BuzzFeed has called him "the most delightful MD ever" in response to his work with that show.[7][2] He also authored If Our Bodies Could Talk, a nonfiction book about human health published by Doubleday.[8][9][10]